At http://weblogs.asp.net/scot... Scott Guthrie discusses the reason for one (or both) of these updates. This is linked to a possible denial of service attack vector that has recently been publicly disclosed. (This attack vector is not exclusive to ASP.NET, so expect similar updates for Apache/PHP and so on).If you have responsibility for any ASP.NET application you should apply the patch, retest your application, get client ......

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I have just recived this from the Author of that excellent product NMAP:"Um, what people WANT when they download Nmap is Nmap itself. Not tohave their searches redirected to Bing and their home page changed toMicrosoft's MSN.Speaking of which, Microsoft emailed me today. They said that theydidn't know they were sponsoring CNET to trojan open source software,and that they have stopped doing it. But the trojan installer usesyour Internet connection to obtain more "special offers" from CNET,and they ......

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